The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil

• Main Author: Nunn, Amy. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Practice of medicine.; Emerging infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Health Administration.; Infectious Diseases.; History of Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09618-6

The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil Amy Nunn, Center for AIDS Research, Brown University Medical School, Providence In 1992, the World Bank warned that Brazil would face enormous challenges confronting the AIDS crisis, and forecast that Brazil would have 1.2 million people living wi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The AIDS Crisis and Democratization in Brazil
• Democratization and Institutional Precursors to AIDS Treatment in Brazil
• Development of Brazils First AIDS Treatment Institutions in a New Democracy
• Legislative Reforms and AIDS Treatment Institutions in the 1990s
• Development of Brazils Contemporary AIDS Treatment Institutions in the Context of Free and Universal Access to AIDS Treatment
• Brazils Contributions to Global Essential Medicines Institutions
• Conclusion.